Category Archives: Canadian Press

Fiat Chrysler: $4.5B plan would add 6,500 Detroit-area jobs
DETROIT - Fiat Chrysler on Tuesday announced a $4.5 billion plan that includes building the first new auto assembly plant in Detroit in almost three decades and increasing its workforce in the area by...
Feb 26, 2019

Correction: People-Stephen King-Genealogical Research story
BOSTON - In headlines for a story Feb. 26 about a grant from the Stephen and Tabitha King Foundation, The Associated Press reported erroneously that the grant came from Stephen King himself. A subsequ...
Feb 26, 2019

US appeals court clears AT&T's $81B purchase of Time Warner
WASHINGTON - A federal appeals court on Tuesday cleared AT&T’s takeover of Time Warner, rejecting the Trump administration’s claims that the $81 billion deal will harm consumers and re...
Feb 26, 2019

Liberals' bump in child benefits fuels poverty rate drop, Statistics Canada says
OTTAWA - Fewer Canadians are living under the official poverty line than at any time in the last decade, Statistics Canada reported Tuesday The agency laid the credit for the drop on a combination of ...
Feb 26, 2019

Bisons' Iizuka attempting to become first female to play U Sports football
Reina Iizuka is Canadian university football’s best-kept secret. The five-foot-seven, 160-pound defensive back is entering her third year at the University of Manitoba, having been a red-shirted...
Feb 26, 2019

Seinfeld sues California classic car dealer over '58 Porsche
NEW YORK - Jerry Seinfeld sued a California dealer in classic cars Monday, saying the company has left the comedian stranded in a dispute over whether a 1958 Porsche he sold is authentic. Seinfeld sou...
Feb 26, 2019

Singh eyes chance to ramp up pressure on Trudeau with byelection win
OTTAWA - Jagmeet Singh celebrated his byelection win the same way he rang in winning the NDP leadership race: on a dance floor. “We danced the night away,” Singh said Tuesday morning in an...
Feb 26, 2019

Committee sets time for Wilson-Raybould testimony on SNC-Lavalin controversy
OTTAWA - Jody Wilson-Raybould will finally give her side of the SNC-Lavalin story on Wednesday, breaking almost three weeks of silence that has fuelled the anonymously sourced controversy and shaken t...
Feb 26, 2019
Soldier found dead on New Brunswick base was veteran of Afghanistan, Bosnia
OROMOCTO, N.B. - The Canadian Armed Forces has released the name of a soldier and Afghanistan veteran found dead at New Brunswick’s Gagetown base on Monday. He has been identified as 41 year-old...
Feb 26, 2019
Fed's Powell predicts solid but slower growth in 2019
WASHINGTON - Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell told Congress on Tuesday the U.S. economy should keep expanding at a solid, though somewhat slower pace this year. But he warned of growing risks, i...
Feb 26, 2019